The president listened intently at the White House as students, parents and teachers begged him to do something, anything, to prevent another mass shooting. The group offered several suggestions, but in the end, Trump remained focused on something he often proposes after a mass shooting: increasing the number of people with guns so they can quickly stop shooters.

Under pressure from activists and legislators, states and cities are sending the kits containing evidence collected after a sexual assault to labs for examination. And then, they are beginning to quietly struggle with a far more complicated challenge: What happens once the kits come back?

Pro-Trump host Bill Mitchell, white nationalist Richard Spencer and others were unhappy about losing a small portion of their followers. Other conservative accounts were suspended pending verification that they are run by people.

Many of the people still trapped in the rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta are cowering in basements, numerous medical facilities have been destroyed and doctors have resorted to using expired drugs to treat the many wounded.

The crusades of the famed Christian evangelist, who died this week, left him little time for his wife and their children. “I saw how important the ministry was to him — and how little the family was," his daughter Ruth once said.